Spyderwort Originals

Our new books: Original, never-before-published works.

Historical Fiction. Charles-Henri Sanson has good looks, a fine education, and plenty of
money: everything that a stylish young Parisian of the 1760s could ask for. He also
has an infamous family name—and he’s trapped in a hideous job that no
one wants. And when disaster strikes, in this true story of destiny and conflicting
loyalties in decadent, treacherous pre-revolutionary France, family duty
demands that Charles take his father’s place much sooner than he had
ever imagined.

Writing Skills / Historical Trivia. NEW expanded 3rd edition. A detailed guide to the most common factual mistakes that
writers of historical fiction make—and how to avoid them. From
medieval knights smoking cigars to characters crossing streets that
wouldn’t exist for another 2000 years, historical novelist Alleyn
exposes and explains the often hilarious, always painful goofs that frequently turn
up in fiction set in the past.

Humor. Western Civ 101 was never quite like this! In a fractured,
fictionalized, hilarious interpretation of events, here are five
thousand years' worth of genuine student bloopers ("The Vaccuum is a
large empty space where the popes live in Rome"), straight from the pens
and exams of freshmen and sophomores trying desperately to make some
sense out of the past.

Literary Criticism / Reference. You’re reading A Tale Of Two Cities for the first time—or the fifth time. But what are gaols, bumpers, farmer-generals, and tocsins? Did all those starving French people mean baguettes when they wanted bread? The Annotated A Tale of Two Cities has over 780 notes about things, people, places, and events mentioned in the text, plus bonus material, to enhance a classic historical novel published 150 years ago.

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